How do you create a line break in Doxygen markdown?

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I'm having a hard time locating the documentation explaining how to add a line break in Doxygen markdown.

I've tried using two spaces at the end of the line, and I've also tried a single or double newline, but none of these are working for me.

I'm using Doxygen version 1.8.9.1.

@albert Thanks, both of those work! I'm still hoping there is some other way, or something I was doing wrong, because using things like html or escape sequences in Markdown sort of defeats the point of using markdown. — , Jul 08 '15 at 17:57

score 14 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 22 '17 at 14:05

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Put a HTML-break tag <br> where you want to have a linebreak, does the job. At least for man page output and HTML output.

answered Feb 22 '17 at 14:05

Julian Dievernich

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If I do this in a `\par`, I get the warning "warning: Illegal command n as part of a title section" (Doxygen 1.8.14). – chrisdembia Feb 14 '18 at 18:15
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Emacs interprets literal `
` in weird ways - be warned! – Joachim W Jun 22 '19 at 09:38

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 22 '19 at 09:43

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Add \n followed by a space at the end of your line [1].

Especially recommended when editing with Emacs, which reacts in weird ways to the other suggested solution <br>.

[1] As per @albert's comment. Works for me under Doxygen 1.8.13.

answered Jun 22 '19 at 09:43

Joachim W

current version is 1.8.15 maybe you can check in 1.8.15 as well (I expect that it will work there as well) – albert Jun 22 '19 at 10:34

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